DrBoring

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by DrBoring 4y ago
> earning money off of your looks I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real feelings that you're talking about with such l
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I like to think of it this way: Revenue != Usefulness (to the users of the app) Revenue == Usefulness (to the recipient of the revenue) Analogy to non-software biz: 1. CandyCo buys ChocolateCo 2. CandyCo changes ChocolateCo recipe to use le
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html No more in-app ads. Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I w
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I have this idea for a chorded VR keyboard that's modeled after a drum kit or xylophone. I predict that once you learn the chords enough with muscle memory, you'll be able to take off the headset and just type with the hand wands.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/ It's about rejecting the default career path which our society consider
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I like the idea, I'll fill out your form later today. Feedback on the website: On the graphic at the bottom where you overlay different models of phone: 1. I think the red/green/blue borders would benefit from more contrast.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
> unhinged I have this speculative theory that Elon Musk's public behavior is a complex long term ruse. I suspect his odd behavior is intentionally designed to get other to underestimate him. Consider it a mental form of the drunken
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted. If you are actually interested in learning more about the ideas presente
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Glad to see someone else noticed the similarity. I was more subtle in my comment, hoping that someone would pick up the thread and point it out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315171
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Trains derailing regularly is consider acceptable and to be expected, infrastructure being tasked with jobs for which it was not designed, calls for more resources ignored, policy makers prioritizing profit over safe and efficient transport
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by DrBoring 4y ago
P.P.S. Minecraft with my daughter. It's the first survival play-through for both of us.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills. I can recall in my youth making the assumption that someone was entir
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Eh, it's one thing to know a highly memorable quote. It's another to remember the following line. I've listened to the audiobooks of that series so many times. Tangent, they got Simon Jones to read for book 6. which i thought
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I was making a reference the next line in the book: "Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I feel the same way about my time in elementary school. My theory is that it was boredom that made school time feel so slow. Summer vacation always seemed to fly by.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Sounds like a deep quote I read from that page in Reader's Digest.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I like to use DEBT for times when I'm writing code that I know are poor practices, and will need to be refactored, but I'm in a mood where I just want to get something built that I can see and UI test.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
> that this should be intrinsic to product design at this point I don't think it is feasible to engineer products in a way which optimizes their disposal. Certainly that is not something most consumers are concerned with. Surely if
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I worked at a startup where the single room bathroom opened into the kitchenette. It's rather unpleasant to smell your co-worker's poo as you're heating up your lunch. I'm not sure if the office space was like that when
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by DrBoring 4y ago
> Does it become toxic micro particles in our waters, bodies? I think the answer to that question lays somewhere between maybe and probably. I'm curious, what made you bring up the point ? Is micro-particle poisoning a common concer
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by DrBoring 4y ago
In my experience as a software developer, I've grouped my peers into a few different categories. This is just a rough estimate based a small sample set, there are probably various gradients in-between. 1. Super coders: These are the co
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I wonder if this tech will lead to better quality audio from toys/books/greeting-cards that produce sound. I often wonder if the poor quality in such applications is due to the tiny speaker, or a mixture of the playback hardware a
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by DrBoring 4y ago
I liked it when StackOverflow introduced features to elicit better community manners. For example, the prompt that say something to the effect of "BobUserXYZ is new to SO, he may not know all the social rules of our community, please t
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Once upon a time, I was on a dev team which had to share an RSA 2FA token for accessing a client's VPN. Rather than pass it around to whoever needed it, we just pointed a webcam at it.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
That prompts a curious thought: If you dump 1 unit of your toxic blood into the 9 units of blood inside the body of a transfusion recipient, then how toxic does their blood become? 1/10 toxic? I've also wondered, is it possible fo
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by DrBoring 4y ago
You just don't understand football, Marge.
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Tangential I've imagined some sort of video watermark that would be dynamically injected into video streams from services like Netflix. The watermark would ID the account to which the stream was sent. The purpose would be to catch wh
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by DrBoring 4y ago
My premesis for any time I try to predict Elon Musk's motivations are: 1 his primary goal is to advance humanity, and 2 he is partially a Randian Objectionist. I also make the presumptuous guess that his actions are often aimed at maki
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by DrBoring 4y ago
Reminds me of the centrifuges that people would build for Pumpkin Chunkin, a competitive pumpkin throwing contest from Delaware, USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GeuWqNXWU
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by DrBoring 4y ago
> I suspect depression medications may inhibit the effect? When I was on Wellbutrin, it stopped the mental effect of alcohol. When I imbibed, there was no loss of inhibition normally associated with alcohol use. However, I did still lose

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